XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Elliotte Harold <elharo AT metalab.unc.edu>]

luca wrote:


> there must be a difference between "not ignoring a DTD altogether"
> and:
>
> - parsing the DTD URL
> - opening an HTTP connection trying to grab the DTD
> - halting everything if the DTD is not retrieved for any reason.

Even if you do want to load the external DTDs once, you could use SAX's 
EntityResolver to cache the DTD so you don;t have to keep reloading the 
same remote resources. See examples 8 and 9 in 
http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/xml/JavaTechandXML_part3/

Possibly I should build something like this into XOM's Builder class. 
I'll put that on the TODO List to consider post-1.0.


> Anyway, just to be totally clear, XML to me is just a slightly
> more standard and sophisticated way to do comma-separated lists,
> which, in a way, is all I need for my job. I think it's fair to require
> that a tool like XOM delivers out of the box
> what 'grep' has being delivering for 20 years.

Comma separated lists don't have external entity references and default 
attribute values to consider :-)


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